Due to the fact that parent pangasius were fed by low-nutrient food and scarcity of supply, many providers distributed low-quality seed pangasius, high dead rates which caused great losses to farmers and hardly meet the demand of raw material pangasius for processing plants, Mr Duong Ngoc Minh, Chairman of Hung Vuong Corporation spoke at the conference of reviewing fish exports QI/2011 held by VASEP on April 25th 2011 in Ho Chi Minh city.

In respond to this situation, Hung Vuong Corp funded VND4 billion for artificial pangasius breeding centres to improve the quality of food for fish parents. These centres will sell the company VND2 billion of fingerling at market price. The company will send this amount of fingerling to hatcheries and buy back this amount of seed fish to raise in its farming area.

In this way, Hung Vuong hopes to improve the quality of seed fish for raising, ensure the capacity to provide raw material for fish processing plants, reduce severe shortage of raw material pangasius